Dial M for Merlot - Episode 41

How did the Queenpin of Crime get Falk’s phone number? Why is she calling so late and slurring her words? Oh. Oh! Listen right now!

Dial M for Merlot, episode 41 of This Gun in My Hand, was fermented in small batches by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How did I get your number? This Gun in My Hand!

This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.

Show Notes:
1. Regina is confused. The first person who claimed, “Acoustics are funny in Parabellum City. Everybody sounds alike,” was Petra in Episode 5, The Quiz Scam, not Falk.
2. Cristobal Bronski is not related to Blackagar Boltagon.
3. I know how to pronounce “hearth,” but Emerald Ash Borer doesn’t.
4. Falk apologizes to Emerald Ash Borer for the big super battle (“Secret Wars on Critical Hearths”, Episode 37, Strikeforce Shakespeare) because the whole thing was engineered as a diversion by Falk. 

Credits:
The opening music clip and the music just before the commercial were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

The barber shop quartet is a clip from a Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer commercial. Not sure what year it’s from. Public domain. 

Sound Effect Title: RotaryDialPhone.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Sailor55/sounds/265491/

Sound Effect Title: telephone.mp3 (ring)
By Werra
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Werra/sounds/78565/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Boy Loves Girl No. 28 (October 1952). Public domain art by Fred Kida.